On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:15:40AM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:41:53PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > > > > > >>I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , > >>which does everything I want. However, there is no debian package. > >>ok, so I compiled it from source and did a make install. However there > >>is no gui available. In red hat there was a mplayer-gui package and > >>that was all that was needed. I found references to an old mplayer > >>debian package however I cannot find it. > >> > >>is there an alternative to mplayer with a debian package? It may seem > >>that I am lazy, I am, that is why I installed debian to begin which, so > >>I did not have to chase dependencies. Now, I do not have to cause there > >>are simply no apps available. > >> > >> > > > >Mplayer packages are available. Add one or both of the following to > >/etc/apt/sources.list: > > > >deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main > >deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main > > > >The mplayer source also comes with debian build rules, if you want > >to build an mplayer package yourself. > > > > > > > I did the above and it seems like the packages installed without a > hitch. However, I now get a could not connect to socket error. > gmplayer shows up with no skin available but I do not remember > installing it.
When I start gmplayer, I also get "could not connect to socket". This doesn't seem to matter as mplayer will still play avi's, mpeg's, etc. without a problem. The default skin is part of the mplayer package and should have installed automatically. It is found in /usr/share/mplayer/Skin. Other skins can be downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html The comments in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf give instructions on how to set the default skin and where to unpack any extra skins you download. -- Jerome
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